Polaris Tech student lottery set for April 3

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Mar 29, 2018 at 1:34 PMMar 29, 2018 at 1:34 PM

Polaris Tech Charter School will conduct its first student lottery 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 3 at the Palmetto Electric community room in Ridgeland.

Parents and guardians of children who applied to the school will have a computer-generated, confidential identification number for their child so they can see if he or she is granted a pre-offer of enrollment or is on the wait list, the school said.

Applications to Polaris Tech are open until midnight Saturday, March 31. Any resident of South Carolina who is entering grades 6-10 next school year is eligible.

More details are posted on the Polaris Tech website (www.polaristech.org/enrollment.html) and will be available at Tuesday’s event. The school will offer enrollment to 280-295 students in grades 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 the first year, then will grow to 11th grade in 2019-2020 and in 2021 will serve the full middle and high school grades.

The random, computerized lottery is needed because the number of applications to Polaris Tech is greater than the available seats. Founding Families who helped promote the school from the early stages get preferred status in the lottery, as do sibling applicants and children of employees, the school said.